Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

politics

  • Roman Catholic Bishops Out of Control

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    3 min read

    And especially not on contraception. Ever since Pope Paul VI reaffirmed the Church’s senseless ban on birth control in 1968, few doctrines have been as vilified, ridiculed and outright ignored by Catholics – evidenced by a recent study showing that 98% of American Catholic women have used some form of contraception. It’s hard to believe,…

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  • No Level Playing Field For Small and Big

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    4 min read

    I used to have a reoccurring conversation with a friend in college about equality.  He is a libertarian and argues for minimal interference and rules.  I am not.  He would talk about the level playing field between he and minorities, including women.  He argued that they had the same chances he had.  I pointed out that he…

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  • Oh, How We Need The Dream

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    4 min read

    A year and a half ago, I wrote a post about “the dream speech” by Martin Luther King, Jr.  In it, I wrote the following: …I will share how I, living in the country transformed by this moment, still respond to Dr. King’s words. When Dr. King says, toward the opening of the famous “I…

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  • When GOD Gives Conflicting Instructions

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    On her blog yesterday, the Rev. Susan Russell announced a Celebration of Equality.  It is a really special event in the life of her Pasadena congregation and I’m sure is going to be an awesome sight.  In the midst of this celebration is a “sneak preview” of a new documentary about the Rt. Rev. V.…

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  • The Two Politics

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    4 min read

    In the United States we have two politics. Competitive Politics The first, I’ll call “Competitive Politics,” is the two-party system of pugilism, evidenced by our incessant competitive metaphors.  We talk about horse races, boxing matches, and football.  So outdated is this vision of politics, that we even use war metaphors as evidence of only two…

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  • What if China fails?

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    I was sitting in Barnes & Noble a few weeks ago and some book title I can no longer remember caught my eye.  It made me think of this question: what if China fails?  It got me thinking.  What if the Chinese economy collapsed today?  What would it mean for all of us here? This…

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